• The standfirst accompanying an interview with Helô Pinheiro – to mark the 50th anniversary of The Girl from Ipanema, the song she inspired as a 17-year-old – wrongly suggested that the writer had met her in person. The interview was conducted by telephone (The woman from Ipanema, 2 August, page 18, G2).

• A picture caption in a display box in today's Sport section said Romania's Sandra Izbasa had won her country's first medal of the Olympic Games, triumphing in the women's gymnastics vault final. In fact Romania had won seven medals, including one gold, before Izbasa's win (Results, page 15).

• An article about the growth in sales of ebooks was accompanied by a still from the film of the bestselling novel The Hunger Games. The caption said it showed Jennifer Lawrence and Gale Hawthorne. However, Gale Hawthorne is the role played by Liam Hemsworth (Ebooks outsell print copies, says Amazon, 6 August, page 10).